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It’s mushroom season here and in the forest people are behaving strangely. Walkers look secretive, as we approach on horseback they try to hide behind trees, or even pretend that the basket on their arm isn’t full of beautiful wild mushrooms. Best friends won’t tell each other where they find their mushrooms, this information is best kept in the family !![blank]
Yes … where to find the best mushrooms is one of France’s best kept secrets. Collecting mushrooms is a favourite Sunday afternoon activity – a slow walk after the family lunch, armed with a basket , a small knife and hopefully some knowledge of mushrooms. It’s surprisingly easy to pick the wrong sort, which could be dangerous. Those with doubt about mushrooms found outdoors, take them to a local chemist who is trained to identify and advise.
The good news is that if you don’t know where to pick them, you can buy them fresh in the markets and grocer stores. We love a fricasée or a poelée of girolles. These bright yellow upright trumpet shaped mushrooms are full of flavour and, lightly fried with garlic and parsley, they are fantastic with meat.
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So if you are able to get your hands on some girolles, here’s the recipe for a simple fricasée:
500grams or 1 lb of girolles
30 g or1 oz of butter
a bunch of parsley
2 cloves of garlic
Wash and dry the girolles, discard the earthy end to the stem. Melt the butter in a frying pan and start cooking the mushrooms, chopped garlic and about half the parsley finely chopped. Once the juice from the girolles has evaporated turn the heat up and continue cooking for about 10 minutes without letting the mushrooms become dark in colour.
Some people like to add a little cream at this stage, optional! Serve with the remaining parley cut finely over the top.
Bon appetit![blank]
25 comments
Beautiful pictures of autumn – and mushrooms !
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Anci
those look wonderful! are you a mushroom expert? have you ever taken them to a local pharmacy to have them professionally id'd? i'd be so afraid to mistakenly eat a poisonous one!
I haven't found good mushrooms here…yet! Very jealous as I can't wait…this post made me even more impatient! :/
No forest near me but the market is heaping with mushrooms. Thanks for the recipe. I had a terrible time with them last year because I couldn't get them clean. It was like eating sand with a little flavor. Any suggestions?
LOVE THE POST SHARON. IT REMINDS ME OF WHEN IN FRANCE WE WOULD GO TRUFFLE HUNTING (AND WITHOUT THE PIGS!) WE WERE NEVER ALLOWED TO TOUCH OR TAKE A ONE! THE FARMER TOOK US INTO HIS WAREHOUSE AND THERE BEFORE US WERE THE EQUIVALENT OF ABOUT $25,000. WISH I COULD JOIN YOU ON THE "HUNT", THAT IS IF YOU WOULD LET ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FUN POST SHARON.
They're almost too pretty to eat… but only almost!
I'll stick to purchasing my mushrooms.
Delicious! Mushrooms are one of my favorite flavors of autumn. I would love to go out a crisp fall day and treasure hunt for mushrooms. Sounds like a lovely way to pass an afternoon!
Here in Oregon, we call them Chanterelles and they do grow locally. I buy them at our local farmer's markets.
I'm impressed by the lovely way you have photographed them.
I've never had wild autumn mushrooms. My parents live on a ravine acreage and every spring my brother picks morel mushrooms. I'd blogged about his "recipe" for cooking them here: https://amykortuem.blogspot.com/2010/05/shroom-season.html
(warning…just looking at it is fattening!)
These French forest mushrooms look not only delicious but gorgeous!
How delicious they look. I love wild mushrooms – but I buy them in the store.
This is serious business in the BC forests as well. I LOVE mushroom picking! Our yard had plenty of Chantrelles in them, which made us the envy of our neighbours!
Reminds me of the wild mushrooms in Crete – such a wonderful flavour – unlike anything else!
Thank you
F
Oh dear Sharon….I think I will buy mine at the store…..with my luck I would pick poison one's and kill myself!! LOL LOL LOL
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Jo
Dearest Sharon,
Wow, you're quite lucky for finding these Chantarelles! My husband (P.J.C. Vedder) was the founder of the world's first and only practical training college in Horst, The Netherlands. He wrote a book which is called the 'Mushroom Bible' and that is translated into eight languages (officially… the Chinese and Bulgarians didn't bother the copyright), also in French.
We both LOVE the Chantarellus cibarius and Boletus edulis (in your basket as well…). When we lived in Italy we have been in the Brunico area in the north for collecting Boletus edulis. It makes me mouthwater when I think about them. You can see my post with hand painted porcelain plates that we received each year in Italy as a gift with all the wild edible mushrooms. https://bit.ly/q9ovqA
Thanks for such a lovely post; it made me very happy as mushrooms have been my job as well…
Love to you,
Mariette
Looks great!!!!!!!
I've just shown this post to Mushroom Man MOTH & he's just fallen off the sofa in envy!
Millie x
Great photos. We love eating girolles in France, but have never picked them…I'm too nervous about mistaking poisonous fungi for edible mushrooms!
Lovely Photo's ,and the Mushroom recipe looks delectable.
i went picking mushrooms where i live as well…..the old cotton wood trees have many available.
Huge umbrellas, 🙂 so i dipped them in a wonderful batter, and deep fried in evoo….soooo delicious. A nice white wine.
For all of you that have not tried in a batter, Plz do! just another way to enjoy these beauties…
enjoy, selfrun@aol.com
Ahhh. There's nothing like a home-cooked meal made of freshly-picked ingredients. Your mushroom dish is very appetizing. How I wish there is a forest nearby my place where I can just pick all the ingredients I need to make a delectable meal.
Wow! France looks more and more appealing to me. Thank you for this post, I just found it and it made my day. I was worried that I will be missing this fun in France but now I know what I'll be doing in September. Yay!
I like this! So simple and so delicious! I have a bunch of mixed mushrooms that I guess I could toss together. Yum!
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